Landscapes of Liminality

Dara Downey is an Associate Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and a Trinity Access Programme tutor. She is the author of American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (Palgrave, 2014), editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, and Vice Chair of the Irish Association for American Studies.Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches popular genre fiction, postcolonial literatures, and children's literature. He is the author of Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade: New Paradigms for Young Readers (Liverpool University Press, 2018). Ian is currently writing a monograph in British-Jamaica cultural relations in Ian Fleming's Jamaica-set James Bond novels, and he is the editor of the peer-review, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies.Elizabeth Parker is a Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Popular Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is currently working on her first monograph The Gothic Forest: Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination. She is the TV editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies and is the co-founder of the upcoming journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic.

• Foreword: “A Utopia of the In-Between”, or, Limning the Liminal, Robert T. Tally Jr / Introduction: Locating Liminality: Space, Place, and the In-Between, Dara Downey, Ian Kinane, and Elizabeth Parker / Section One: Liminal Spaces and Places / 1. Close Listening: Urban Soundscapes in Ulysses, Manhattan Transfer, and Berlin Alexanderplatz, Annika Eisenberg / 2. “Cities of the Insane”: The Asylum as Ruin in Recent American Horror Narratives, Bernice M. Murphy / 3. In Between Days: Domestic Liminality in the Work of Aideen Barry, Tracy Fahey / 4. Victorian Fireside Storytelling: Christmas, Ritual, and Liminality in Round the Fire: Six Stories, Kate Forrester / 5. “Weren’t all true nomads at their happiest in limbo?”: Hauntings in Non-Places in Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black and Nicola Barker’s Darkmans, Kathryn Bird / Section Two: Liminal Identities / 6. Figures in a Foreign Landscape: Aspects of Liminality in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival, Melanie Otto / 7. Liminal Identities of Migrant Groups: The Old Russian Believer

The liminal: a threshold, a transitional space, an area between, an edge or fault line. Cutting a path between place and space, the informed and probing essays in this extraordinary volume reach back to Arnold Van Gennep, Victor Turner and Yi fu Tuan in broadly based inquiry showing how edges are critical junctures of and overlapping borders of knowledge that includes folklore, literature, geography, gender, and visual media. Composed and presented with care, Landscapes of Liminality is a valuable contribution to a growing and compelling field of spatial studies.